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Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition] | ![Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515rKA7hYWL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Various
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  227 reviews
Sales Rank: 114
Format: Extra Tracks, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 001027102
UPC: 602517507739
EAN: 0602517507739
ASIN: B000WCBPOG
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Girl | | • | Hold Me Tight | | • | All My Loving | | • | I Want to Hold Your Hand | | • | With a Little Help from My Friends | | • | It Won't Be Long | | • | I've Just Seen a Face | | • | Let It Be | | • | Come Together | | • | If I Fell | | • | Dear Prudence | | • | Flying | | • | Blue Jay Way - Harrison, George [1 |
Disc 2
| • | I Am the Walrus | | • | Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite | | • | Because | | • | Something - Harrison, George [1 | | • | Oh! Darling | | • | Strawberry Fields Forever | | • | Revolution | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Harrison, George [1 | | • | Across the Universe | | • | Helter Skelter | | • | Happiness Is a Warm Gun | | • | Blackbird | | • | Hey Jude | | • | Don't Let Me Down | | • | All You Need Is Love | | • | Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds |
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Amazon.com
Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley
Album Description
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE DELUXE - 2 DISC VERSION A love story set in the 1960's amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock `n roll. Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. FEATURING SONGS FROM THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME, PERFORMED BY THE CAST INCLUDING EVAN RACHEL WOOD, JIM STURGESS, DANA FUCHS, MARTIN LUTHER McCOY, BONO, JOE COCKER AND EDDIE IZZARD Package art will incorporate stills from pivotal scenes from the movie and a 16-page folder foldout poster with a strawberry image.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 222 more reviews...
 Deluxe Edition over all January 8, 2009
better than the one-CD version! a must-have for all fans of the movie and of the Beatles!
Across the Universe true to the spirit of the Beatles January 7, 2009
Over the llifetime of a body of music there will be cover versions. This album goes beyond the cover and finds the spirit of invention. Each track interprets the original song with fresh vision.
Great CD from a great movie January 6, 2009
If you're a Beatles fan, and who isn't, then you'll really enjoy the movie and CD. Yeah, they're covering the Beatles so it isn't exactly the Beatles, but the interpretations of most songs is really wonderful. One suspects that the Fab Four would smile and nod in approval of these renditions; we certainly do each time we hear them.
Get the 31 track deluxe edition! January 6, 2009
What a wonderful soundtrack this is. I don't know how I missed seeing this movie when it came out in late 2007 but better late than never. "Across the universe" is a musical movie and like last year's "Mamma Mia!" (which was based on songs by swedish supergroup ABBA), it is based on songs done by the Beatles. It is so well done, you'd swear the Beatles wrote the songs specially for the movie.
Now, the only music by the Beatles I own is their compilation "1" so this is a great introduction to more music by the Beatles to people like me. Like loads of reviewers have stated, seeing the movie helps one appreciate this CD much better. The songs are performed (credibly I must say) by the cast of the movie.
I love every single song on this CD (I have the deluxe edition with 31 tracks) and I'm glad to see practically every song used in the movie is here and chronologically arranged too. A few favourites are the Gospel treatment of "Let it be" (by Carol Woods & Timothy T. Mitchum), Joe Cocker's Bluesy take on "Come together" (the best remake of this song I've heard, far superior to efforts by Michael Jackson or Sugababes), "Strawberry fields forever" (by Jim Sturgess), "All you need is love" by Jim Sturgess and a Janis Joplin channelling Dana Fuchs (she reminds me of Anastasia and Taylor Dayne), "Happiness is a warm gun" and Hey Jude" by Joe Anderson (though I miss the harmonising on the latter song by Jude's mom in the movie version), and "I want you (She's so heavy)" by Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio & Ensemble.
Bono's take on "I am the walrus" is so trippy and fab, previously the only version of this song I'd heard was a noisy and boring remake by UK rockers Oasis. Evan Rachel Wood does a lovely acoustic rendition of "If I fell", while a Hendrix-channelling Martin Luther McCoy does a gentle soulful performance of "While my guitar gently weeps". A few of the songs are given slightly different treatments on the CD (the afore mentioned "Hey Jude" being an example) and if the director is to be believed, the songs were performed live while shooting the movie, accounting for the very believable performances.
Some Beatles purists will understandably raise hell over the "desecration" of these classics but I think this is a superbly and sensitively done soundtrack which will introduce the music of the fab four to a newer audience.
A Perfect Soundtrack January 3, 2009
there are many movie soundtracks that dont include every song from the movie and that is always a downer. this cd is quite the opposite. everysong from the movie is in it and they are all in order
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